#Beer Hall Putsch

[batnomadblog]

Munich / München Day 1 part 2

Munich / München Day 1 part 2

Frauenkirche, Odeonplatz, Feldherrhalle and more form part of Day 1 part two in Munich/ München. Much like Munich Day 1 Part 1, it’s a bit of a jumble. With most sites in the city only a short walk from each other, many places were passed multiple times each day. Meaning some pictures taken on day three for part of day 1 etc. Both part 1 & part 2 can easily be done in one day (and more).…

[rabbuy6]

Rookie numbers.

[thesparkwhowalks]

There's this scene in A Mighty Wind, a great mockumentary about producing a folk reunion concert, wherein the concert's producer tells the director he thinks it would be great to open the broadcast with a crane shot swooping over the crowd... while they are going over the shots available based on the existing placement of cameras for the show going on in a couple hours.

The director points out they don't have a crane. The producer opines again about how great it would look. The director again says they don't have a crane. The producer acknowledges that, but continues talking about how cool it would look. The director agrees that it would look cool. They repeat that "I'm just saying" and "Yeah, that would look nice" loop a few times. The producer clearly expects that to mean something, but the unspoken fact remains that they just aren't able to achieve that shot and the producer doesn't actually have any feasible plans on how to change that.

That's what a lot of American left wing political discussions have felt like this year.

[sgiandubh]

A statement

From S's IG stories - the 💖emoji superimposed by himself on The Guardian's shared reel about a protest near the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin (January 25, 2025). The event was organized in response to Elon Musk's more than questionable statements in support of Germany's Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) Neo-Nazi party.

On behalf of all my fellow Europeans, thank you, this time. Very much welcome, as the ghost of Munich's Beer Hall Putsch roams our continent, with a vengeance.

The turmoil is real and this statement is honest. The trolls will probably not share it, simply because this is out of their reach, understanding and scope.

Let it be known, though. Now that is something very brave, especially when taking into account the general atmosphere (dour enough) and his own circumstances (no future projects apparently in sight). Noted and commended as such.

PS: thank you, sweetheart, for letting me know. You know who you are.

[thatswhywelovegermany]

November 9, the fateful day of the Germans in history

Nov 9, 1313: Battle of Gammelsdorf - Louis IV defeats his cousin Frederick the Fair marking the beginning of a series of disputes over supremacy between the House of Wittelsbach and the House of Habsburg in the Holy Roman Empire

Nov 9, 1848: Execution of Robert Blum (a german politician) - this event is said to mark the beginning of the end of the March Revolution in 1848/49, the first attempt of establishing a democracy in Germany

Nov 9, 1914: Sinking of the SMS Emden, the most successful German ship in world war I in the indo-pacific, its name is still used as a word in Tamil and Sinhala for a cheeky troublemaker

Nov 9, 1918: German Revolution of 1918/19 in Berlin. Chancellor Max von Baden unilaterally announces the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II and entrusts Friedrich Ebert with the official duties. At around 2 p.m., the Social Democrat Philipp Scheidemann proclaims the "German Republic" from the Reichstag building. Two hours later, the Spartacist Karl Liebknecht proclaims the "German Soviet Republic" from the Berlin City Palace.

Nov. 9, 1923: The Hitler-Ludendorff Putsch (Munich Beer Hall Putsch) is bloodily suppressed by the Bavarian State Police in front of the Feldherrnhalle in Munich after the Bavarian Prime Minister Gustav Ritter von Kahr announces on the radio that he has withdrawn his support for the putsch and that the NSDAP is being dissolved.

Nov 9, 1925: Hitler imposes the formation of the Schutzstaffel (SS).

Nov 9, 1936: National Socialists remove the memorial of composer Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy in front of the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig.

Nov 9, 1938: November Pogrom / Pogrom Night ("Night of Broken Glass") organized by the Nazi state against the Jewish population of Germany.

Nov 9, 1939: The abduction of two british officiers from the Secret Intelligence Service by the SS in Venlo, Netherlands, renders the British spy network in continental Europe useless and provides Hitler with the pretext to invade the Netherlands in 1940.

Nov 9, 1948: Berlin Blockade Speech - West Berlin mayor Ernst Reuter delivers a speech with the famous words "Peoples of the world, look at this city and recognize that you cannot, that you must not abandon this city".

Nov 9, 1955: Federal Constitutional Court decision: all Austrians who have acquired german citizenship through annexation in 1938, automatically lost it after Austria became sovereign again.

Nov 9, 1967: Students protest against former Nazi professors still teaching at German universities, showing the banner ”Unter den Talaren – Muff von 1000 Jahren” ("Under the gowns – mustiness of 1000 years", referring to the self-designation of Nazi Germany as the 'Empire of 1000 Years') and it becomes one of the main symbols of the Movement of 1968 (the German Student  Movement).

Nov 9, 1969: Anti-Semitic bomb attack - the radical left-winged pro-palestinian organization “Tupamaros West-Berlin” hides a bomb in the jewish community house in Berlin. It never exploded though.

Nov 9, 1974: death of Holger Meins - the member of the left-radical terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF) financed in part by the GDR that eventually killed 30 people, dies after 58 days of hunger strike, triggering a second wave of terrorism.

Nov 9, 1989: Fall of the Berlin Wall - After months of unrest, demonstrations and tens of thousands escaping to West Germany, poorly briefed spokesman of the newly formed GDR government Günter Schabowski announces that private trips to non-socialist foreign countries are allowed from now on. Tens of thousands of East Berliners flock to the border crossings and overwhelm the border guards who had not received any instructions yet because the hastily implemented new travel regulations were supposed to be effective only the following day and involved the application for exit visas at a police office. Subsequently, crossing the border between both German states became possible vitrually everywhere.

[beadelmare]

trump pardoning the people who stormed the capitol is giving hitler pardoning those involved in the beer hall putsch why the fuck are we letting history repeat itself.

[sashayed]

doing a seance with a bunch of gay weimar ghosts to ask what they wish they'd done differently once they realized the beer hall putsch guy was absolutely going to be chancellor

update they said NOTHING, they said WHAT?, they said EXPLAIN TO US HOW THE DEAD COULD HAVE LIVED DIFFERENTLY. i said well, politically, like would you have, I don't know, written pamphlets or marched or something? and they said LOLOLOLOL. now they are reminding each other of their favorite smells and dancing in a skeleton circle :( thanks for nothing

[whencyclopedia]

How Did Hitler Rise to Power?

The rise of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the Nazi dictator of Germany from 1933, was enabled by those already in power eager to take advantage of his popularity. Hitler promised to make Germany great again after the humiliation of WWI by restoring Germany's lost territories, returning to traditional German values, achieving full employment, and destroying 'enemies' like Communists and Jewish people.

Hitler's rise to power was a surprisingly long process, involving many steps and several significant setbacks such as his imprisonment following the failed coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in November 1923. Hitler's rise to power effectively took a decade, with the Nazi Party gaining just 12 seats in elections for the German Reichstag (Parliament) in 1928 (from a total of 491 in that election), 107 in 1930, 230 in July 1932, 196 in November 1932, and 288 seats in 1933. Once securely in power as chancellor, in 1933, Hitler quickly eliminated all opposition and established a totalitarian regime with himself as undisputed dictator, Germany's Führer.

Adolf Hitler in SA Uniform

Imperial War Museums (CC BY-NC-SA)

Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party rose to power for the following reasons:

The harsh terms of the Treaty of Versailles riled many Germans, especially the guilt clause for starting WWI, and traditional political parties were tarnished by association with the signing of the treaty. Hitler promised to overturn the treaty and restore German pride.

The fallout of the Great Depression led to mass unemployment and hyperinflation leading voters to turn to more extreme political parties.

The weakness and ineptitude of successive Weimar Republic coalition governments.

Hitler promised full employment through such programmes as road building and rearmament.

In return for their support, Hitler promised business leaders lucrative state contracts such as arms manufacturing. This idea was also popular with the German Army.

Hitler appealed to traditional German beliefs like the greatness of the nation, strong family values, and a classless society.

Hitler promised an expansion of Germany to find new lands and Lebensraum ('living space') where the German people could prosper.

Hitler used propaganda to identify what the Nazis described as common enemies of the state, such as outsiders and Jewish people who, he claimed, were holding Germany back.

A cult of Hitler was created, which promoted the idea that he was the saviour of Germany.

The establishment thought that by inviting Hitler to power, they could better control the Nazi phenomenon and benefit from its popularity themselves.

Once made chancellor, Hitler used his power to eliminate rivals. He ensured the German parliament had little power and began to establish a dictatorship with himself as the undisputed head of a one-party police state.

Historians continue to debate the weight of each of the above points in accounting for Hitler's rise to power.

The Treaty of Versailles

The First World War (1914-18) was formally terminated by the Treaty of Versailles, which dictated the terms of the German surrender. Germany lost a significant part of its territory, was obliged to pay reparations, and had to accept full responsibility for starting the conflict. The German people protested at these terms in 1919, and those German politicians who had agreed to it were widely referred to as 'the criminals of 1919'. This resentment was fuelled by the myth that the German people had been let down in WWI by the high command of their army, which had 'stabbed them in the back', otherwise, they might have won the war, many thought. Consequently, there was a feeling that the political and military establishment of the new Germany, the Weimar Republic (1918-33), could not be fully trusted.

Europe after The Treaty of Versailles

Simeon Netchev (CC BY-NC-ND)

The fascist National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP or Nazi Party for short) was founded in 1920. The party was neither socialist nor at all interested in workers, but Adolf Hitler had chosen the name to give his ultra-nationalist party as wide an appeal as possible. Hitler was able to exploit the anti-establishment feeling as the Nazis were complete outsiders. As early as 1925, in his book Mein Kampf, Hitler promised to abolish the terms of Versailles and create a new 'Greater Germany'.

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[verbotenlove33]

Adi Tamed By Prison ⛓️‍💥

100 years ago today on 20 December 1924 HitIer was released from Landsberg Prison, after serving 264 days of his 5 year sentence for organizing the failed 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch. While in prison Adi decided he would now take the “legal route to power”. He doesn’t look very tame to me though, I’d definitely have given ANYTHING to have been with Adi his first night out of jail, it looks like he really needed to blow off some steam 🤭🫣💦

[bruceburgdorf]

The FIRST bomb plot to kill Hitler

Georg Elser 1903 - 1945

Possibly THE bravest person in the history of the German resistance

There were at least forty two known assassination attempts on Hitler’s life, four of which involved a bomb. The architect of the very first bomb plot was a German man who acted completely alone and had no connection to any of the other known conspirators.

His name was Georg Elser and he had detested Hitler from the earliest days of his rise to power. Georg had voted for the German Communist party (KPD) but since he was not an active member or engaged in previous anti-Nazi activities he went under the radar and avoided arrest. He tuned out to Nazi broadcasts and refused to do the Hitlergruß (Nazi salute) in public.

In early 1939, as war seemed imminent, he began working on a homemade bomb involving the workings of a clock and a car indicator.

It was almost impossible to know where Hitler was going to be in advance if you weren’t part of his inner circle however there was one place where the Führer was guaranteed to be in November every year, the site of the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch in Munich where he had made a speech every year since he became chancellor in 1933.

Georg gained access to the beer hall and would spend weeks, night after night, hollowing out a hole in a supporting pillar while hiding from view and timing any loud noises he made with sounds in the building. He would finally place his bomb with a timer set to go off during the speech for which senior members of the Nazi party would also be there and have front row seats. Once everything was set up Georg headed towards the safety of Switzerland.

In a devastating turn of events, the speeches that night had started slightly earlier than scheduled and Hitler and the senior party members had left the building to discuss military matters by the time the bomb detonated.

It was recorded that the bomb went off just THIRTEEN MINUTES after Hitler had left the building.

Tragically, the next day, with the country on high alert, Georg was detained at the Swiss border for having plans for the bomb still on him and he was handed over to the German authorities. Members of his family and people connected to him were arrested also but later released.

Georg would be sent to Dachau where he would be executed just before the end of the war in April 1945.

On a slightly positive note, the bomb did kill 7 members of the Nazi party and injured 62.

Speaking to SS guards sometime before his death, he was recorded to have said the following,

“I had to do it because, for his whole life, Hitler has meant the downfall of Germany”

[letterstoayoungdreamer]

okay but just adding to the november 9th and jean thing

in german history, november 9th is generally referred to as "day of fate" because starting in 1848 and going all the way to the fall of the berlin wall, historic events kept happening on that date

not all of them were good, really most of them weren't, but i bet history major kevin day would have a field day with this information

(just to name a few events: 1918 saw the november revolution, 1923 saw the beer hall putsch, 1938 it was the Kristallnacht and most famously 1989 the berlin wall fell)

also something about fate and jean makes me want to fall to my knees and sob

[charlesoberonn]

November 8 this year is gonna be the centennial anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch (Hitler's first attempt at a fascist takeover), so be prepared for Neo-Nazis and other fascists to try some shit.

[so-much-for-subtlety]

I found this 100 year old book today, which was published by the City of Boston and contains a bunch of information and statistics about the previous year (this volume was printed in 1924 and is a review of the year 1923).

It's kind of weird that it's a 100 years old, but at the same time just feels like a regular book. When I see '1923' I get confused and makes we think that it's a book from and 1990s or something.

There are some eerie references in the introduction that it's been 5 years since 'the world war' (WW2 was still 15 years in the future), but for context in 1924 these are some things that were happening:

Hitler was sentenced to 5 years in prison for his participation in the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch (he serves less than 9 months).

Fascists win the Italian general elections with a two-thirds majority.

U.S. President Calvin Coolidge grants citizenship to all Native Americans.

The Zeppelin made its first transatlantic crossing from Germany to land in New Jersey.

United States occupation of the Dominican Republic ends.

The last known sighting of a California grizzly bear is recorded.

Astronomer Edwin Hubble announces that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe.

[girlactionfigure]

You may have seen this iconic photo before.

The photo took place in 1936 N*zi Germany in an event featuring Adolf Hitler. As you can see, there is a sea of people saluting "Der Führer".

During this tumultuous time, some courts required those in attendance to salute their leader.

But, in this sea of N*zi supporters, one man stands alone, defiant, arms crossed, refusing to salute the N*zi leader.

That courageous man was believed to be August Landmesser.

Landmesser had previously been a loyal N*zi follower.

First, some background. Hitler came to power after he was convicted and charged with treason after a failed coup in 1924 to overthrow the German government, according to The Smithsonian.

The failed coup, the Beer Hall Putsch, resulted in violence and deaths, but it gave Hitler a platform to espouse his beliefs on the failure of the current government, which were publicized in 1920 in a 25-point platform - “a haphazard mixture of antisemitism, nationalism and socialism, all tied to a furious rejection of the Treaty of Versailles,” according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum.

Helped by the onset of the worldwide Great Depression in 1929, Hitler and the N*zis needed one or more groups to put the blame on and rally the citizens - that group back then was the Jews.

“Hitler offered the Germans a relatively coherent vision of national greatness, in which history and geopolitics destined Germany for the leading role in Europe,” according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum. “This vision swept many off their feet.”

The Germans submitted “to the leadership of Adolf Hitler, who always knew best what needed to be done, and who was always right.”

“The popularity of the N*zis therefore stemmed from an accurate reading of the public mood; the adoption of a program that combined a rather dissonant assortment of nationalist, socialist, and anti-Semitic slogans; and the fact that, in Adolf Hitler, the party had a charismatic leader,”

according to the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial Museum.

Back to August Landmesser.

“Landmesser joined the N*zi Party in 1931 in hopes of gaining employment and was a member until 1935,” according to writer Andrew Kaczynski.

After joining the N*zi party, Landmesser would fall in love - with a Jewish woman named Irma Eckler. He would soon discover what the N*zi party was all about and he and his family would get caught up in its deadly race laws.

After the N*zi party found out Landmesser was engaged to a Jewish woman, he was expelled from the party. But, it didn't end there.

When Landmesser and Eckler tried to file a marriage application in Hamburg, the union was denied under the newly enacted Nuremberg Laws.

~~~

The Nuremberg Laws cast a “dark shadow [which] remains an enduring testament to humanity’s capacity for cruelty,” wrote Baruch Adler, Vice Chair of The International March of the Living.

“They institutionalized racial discrimination and persecution against Jews, serving as a chilling precursor to the horrors of the Holocaust. However, beyond their historical significance, they offer a stark lesson for our contemporary world in the ongoing battle against racism and prejudice.”

The International March of the Living continues, “The Nuremberg Laws, consisting of the Reich Citizenship Law and the Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor set out to strip Jews of their fundamental rights and dignity. These laws criminalized Jews’ participation in public life, engagement in German culture, and even their right to marry non-Jewish Germans. Essentially, the Nuremberg Laws relegated Jews to second-class citizenship and legitimized their persecution.

“The consequences of these laws were nothing short of catastrophic. Families were torn apart, livelihoods destroyed, and a pervasive fear enveloped the Jewish community in Germany. These laws laid the foundation upon which the N*zi regime built its monstrous campaign of extermination, the Holocaust. The systematic genocide of six million Jews can be traced back to the dehumanization and persecution initiated by the Nuremberg Laws.”

“Custom and law are closely linked systems that affect how people act toward each other,” according to the Houston Holocaust Museum. “In both the post-Civil War United States and in N*zi Germany, the freedoms and rights of some groups of people were limited. Each country developed a system of racially based laws influenced by past customs and beliefs. These systems would dramatically shape history.

“Under each system, groups were targeted. They lost important political, economic and social rights. African Americans were the primary target under the U.S. system of Jim Crow laws . . . In contrast, Jewish people were the primary target under the Nuremberg Laws of N*zi Germany.”

Even today, many countries target similar groups.

~~~

According to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

“Hitler was obsessed with race long before becoming Chancellor of Germany. His speeches and writings spread his belief that the world was engaged in an endless racial struggle. White Nordic people topped the racial hierarchy; Slavs, Blacks, and Arabs were lower, and Jews, who were believed to be an existential threat to the “Aryan Master race,” were at the very bottom. When the N*zis came to power, these beliefs became government ideology and were spread publicly in posters, radio, movies, classrooms and newspapers. They also served as a basis for a campaign to reorder German society, first through the exclusion of Jews from public life, then the murder of disabled Germans as well as Slavs and, ultimately, the effort to exterminate European Jewry.

“In order to make Jewish persecution publicly palatable, N*zi propagandists branded Jews as a biological threat to Germany. Government-sponsored racist propaganda was widely distributed denouncing Jews as “alien,” and “parasitic,” and responsible for Germany’s cultural, political, and economic “degeneration.” These words had an enormous effect, creating an environment in which persecution and violence were acceptable.”

“Prior to the war, the N*zis had focused on encouraging Jews to emigrate from the Greater German Reich through their antisemitic policies and actions,” according to The Weiner Holocaust Library. “By 1939 in Poland, the N*zis escalated their actions, and segregated and imprisoned Jews for future deportation. At this stage, the N*zis planned to deport Jews to Madagascar or lands further east. Later, in 1941, as both of these options were realised to be infeasible, the N*zis created extermination camps to liquidate the populations of the ghettos instead.”

~~~

In 1935, Landmesser and Eckler, amidst all the turmoil, would welcome their first daughter, Ingrid.

By this time, Landmesser was well informed about the N*zi party, and, so supposedly, on June 13, 1936, when given an opportunity to express his thoughts about Hitler and the N*zi party and what it was doing to his homeland, he decided to give his crossed-arm stance during Hitler's speech at the shipyard, to be captured forever in the iconic photograph, according to his daughter.

[The N*zi or Hitler salute debuted . . . as a way to pay homage to Adolf Hitler,” according to the Anti-Defamation League. “It consists of raising an outstretched right arm with the palm down . . . Since World War II, neo-N*zis and other white supremacists have continued to use the salute, making it the most common white supremacist hand sign in the world.”

“By 1934, it became mandatory, and special courts were established to punish those who refused, with penalties ranging from fines and intimidation to imprisonment in concentration camps,” according to the Weiner Holocaust Library.]

Landmesser became famous for the photograph showing him refusing to give the N*zi salute while surrounded by others who complied.

When the photo reemerged online as a meme, it was titled, “Be this Guy.”

~~~

In 1937, Landmesser decided N*zi Germany was no place to raise his family, he felt unsafe, and all the stories of violence against anyone who disagreed with "Der Führer" frightened him. He decided to flee to Denmark with his family, but he was detained at the border. He was accused of "dishonoring the race," or "racial infamy," under the Nuremberg Laws.

But, he refused to abandon his wife and child, ignoring N*zi wishes to end their relationship. He was arrested, sent to a N*zi concentration camp to serve three years.

He would never again see the woman he loved nor see his daughter(s) (his wife at the time was pregnant with a second child) grow up.

His wife was arrested by the Gestapo, giving birth to the couple's second child, Irene, in prison. Afterwards, she was sent to an all-women's concentration camp, then supposedly transferred in 1942 to what the N*zi's called a "euthanasia center" where she was murdered with 14,000 others.

Landmesser, lost without his wife and children, was released only to be drafted into war in 1944, where he was declared missing in action in Croatia and presumed dead.

The children of the couple would survive.

The photo of that moment in 1936 would lay unnoticed for nearly 55 years, until 1991, when a German newspaper republished the photograph, asking its readers whether anyone could identify the lone man in the picture.

During that time, one of the couple's daughters, Irene Eckler, had been researching her family, trying to gain an understanding of what happened to them. She and her sister had been separated, but had survived the war without their parents. She had found some information at Fasena, an educational site on the N*zi death camp at Auschwitz. She then saw the newspaper article and identified the photograph.

She would then publish her findings in a book titled, "Irene Eckler: A Family Torn Apart by Rassenschande (race disgrace)".

The picture would re-surface again after it was published by the Washington Post and then go viral online.

Writer Zoheb Alem in 2024 wrote:

“American poet E.E. Cummings once said, ‘To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best to make you everybody else – means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight.’

“These words perfectly capture the story of August Landmesser, a courageous man who defied N*zi ideology for the love of his life.”.

~ jsr

The Jon S. Randal Peace Page

[usfacistdiary]

[cursedreverie1945]

And this is why we say don't do drugs...

Okay behave Reverie, behave.

Göring ended up with a morphine addiction after being shot in the thigh (near the groin) at the infamous Beer Hall Putsch.

By 1941, Göring was at the peak of his power and influence. As the Second World War progressed, Göring's standing with Hitler and the German public declined after the Luftwaffe proved incapable of preventing the Allied bombing of Germany's cities and resupplying surrounded Axis forces in Stalingrad. Around that time, Göring increasingly withdrew from military and political affairs to devote his attention to collecting property and artwork, much of which was stolen from Jewish victims of the Holocaust.

Informed on 22 April 1945 that Hitler intended to commit suicide, Göring sent a telegram to Hitler requesting his permission to assume leadership of the Reich. Considering his request an act of treason, Hitler removed Göring from all his positions, expelled him from the party, and ordered his arrest.

Göring committed suicide right before his execution following the Nuremberg trials.